by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 20, 2013 | Economy
President Obama's infrastructure investment plan, released officially Wednesday afternoon, is an important step in the direction of what America needs: a full-employment plan that puts Americans back to work rebuilding an America of shared prosperity. But it is just a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog
The group Fix the Debt has been at it again, releasing another proposal designed to divert the nation's attention to the so-called "debt crisis," while the more pressing jobs crisis and poor-and-middle-class-squeeze crisis goes unaddressed. Watch here as opponents to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 15, 2013 | Chained CPI, The Sequester
A majority of House Democrats have signed a House Progressive Caucus letter to President Obama opposing benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. "We write to affirm our vigorous opposition to cutting Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits in any...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 11, 2013 | Economy
The previews of President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday promise that job creation will be a major focus – a welcome development in the face of Washington's debilitating and wrong-headed obsession with deficit-cutting. But what's really important is...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 5, 2013 | The Sequester
After President Obama called on Congress today to postpone the deep across-the-board federal spending cuts set to kick in on March 1 in the so-called sequester, Campaign for America’s Future co-director Robert Borosage responded by declaring that the sequester "should...
